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NPR's Short Wave team talks about the surprising benefits of small talk, more humane ways to kill lobsters, and an ancient flood that may have helped create the Grand Canyon.

The Minnesota legislature opened its session this week with a special ceremony for Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were victims of a political assassination eight months ago.

Democratic Rep. Wesley Bell of Missouri, a member of the House Oversight Committee, talks about the deposition of the Clintons in the Epstein probe, which continues Friday with the former president.

Across the west, local and state officials are moving to scrub Cesar Chavez's name and image from schools, streets, murals and holidays honoring the famed labor leader. In San Fernando, California they've already pulled down a statue of him.

The player's departure shortly before midnight on Sunday leaves two of an initial seven squad members in Australia.

Scientists discover what makes basketball shoes squeak on the courts, and celebrate their discovery by making music.

NPR staffers discuss their favorite films that feature spies and espionage.

Set in a quaint Irish village, The Keeper follows The Searcher and The Hunter, and solidifies the crime series' status as a contemporary classic.

Angie Gordon at San Quentin on "Basket Case" by Green Day. It's the Uncuffed My Mixtape, where we listen to our producers' favorite songs.

Today is Purim

Billy Idol was punk in the 1970s, a pop star in the '80s, and now his rock 'n' roll excess is the subject of a Hulu documentary called Billy Idol Should Be Dead. It begins streaming on March 26.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Zsuzsanna Vegh, program officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, about what's at stake in the upcoming election in Hungary.